Kaizo Operations B.V. 01
What we are doing
Kaizo aims to actively guide employees towards achieving their goals and making an impact at their companies.We are building a performance development platform for customer support teams that leverages gamification and AI to improve operational efficiency, elevate teams' performance and retention with actionable goals. We are a product-led, fast-growing SaaS company with a diverse team and a globally active customer base.
- Kaizo is leveraging gamification and machine learning to make the daily work experience for customer support agents more engaging, fun and productive.
- We run a microservice-based stream processing platform which processes 200+ million events every day using Akka Streams and Kafka.
- Those services are deployed to Kubernetes on Google Cloud and feed data into Elasticsearch and Mongodb.
- Our systems are designed to be reactive, e.g. responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven.
- We are building a realtime Machine Learning engine to continuously adjust the gamification parameters that keep our users motivated and productive.
- We are always scaling up to handle more data with lower latencies.
Job description
- You will be part of an exciting fast-growing SaaS company in an international environment (steep learning curve is guaranteed).
- You will have an impactful role with lots of growth potential for yourself (possibility to move into a Tech Lead).
- You will have full ownership over the design and architecture of the features you will build.
- You will build a tool used by great companies like Miro, Marley Spoon, Foot Locker or Tripaneer.
- You will be part of a team of diverse and passionate people with a culture that empowers great work (24 ninjas & 15 nationalities).
- You will love these perks: Flexible working hours & Unlimited holiday policy, Attractive office in Amsterdam & remote within the EU timezone (access to remote co-working offices), Mentorship program, Own laptop & Home equipment, Team events & games... (and more!).
Your role in our team
As an Experienced Scala Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing backend services on existing or new microservices, integrate with third-party APIs, and help run all of this in production. You will work tightly with our frontend developers as well as with our AI Engineers.
You will focus on
- Playing an integral part in the design and architecture of our gamification platform
- Developing features in a fast paced startup environment without compromising automated tests or neglecting software craftsmanship
- Working on our distributed, real-time engine that handles millions of events per day
- Getting our system ready to scale by one order of magnitude
- 'Big Picture' thinking
- Help the AI team implement distributed machine learning algorithms
- Coaching and mentoring Juniors in the team
What we bring to the table
We do everything to make sure you feel motivated and supported by offering:
- Stock Options with up to 10 years of PTEP (meaning you get to keep them for 10 years)
- Teamwork & fun perks when full remote work is required (weekly team games & drinks, morning coffee chats and more)
- Investment into your personal development using our network of internal and external mentors
- Own office equipment (laptop, gear, tools) and home equipment (standing desk, chair, etc.)
- Free lunch (even while working from home)
- Flexible working hours and unlimited holiday policy
- Attractive office (with a view) in Amsterdam
- Remote possible within the EU time zone (you'll get an access pass to a remote office (co-working) at your location)
- Workations (2019: Tuscany, 2020: Zoom, 2021: Portugal)